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Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values May 9th Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words Rated 3:42pm
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The Fall of RoamI don’t use Roam anymore. Why? 2022-02-12 every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words Rated Yesterday 1:06am
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Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routesStudies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling them which streets are the safest for cyclists. May 12th New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words Rated May 18th
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Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis EngelDoes seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter... May 15th The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words Rated May 17th
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing TreatmentThe technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. #Babies May 15th The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words Rated May 16th
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Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailerAt Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved… 2020-07-28 Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words Rated May 15th
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain peoplei have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be... May 14th stillgreenmoss 1,000 words Rated May 14th
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How The Economics of Multitenancy WorkWith millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works. blacksmith.sh 2,000 words Rated May 14th
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The Great Displacement Is Already Well UnderwayIt's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year May 4th Shawn K's substack Shawn K 3,000 words Rated May 13th
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Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla HaydenWhen a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics May 13th The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words Rated May 13th
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Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic RoutesA bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke. May 4th Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words Rated May 13th
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DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreakFacing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google May 8th TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated May 11th
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media May 10th The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated May 10th
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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake ZimmermanA discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve. blog.jez.io Jake Zimmerman 4,000 words Rated May 9th
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So much bloodbut how much exactly? May 5th DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated May 7th
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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | BlogA reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency. Apr 24th NotAShelf 2,000 words Rated May 6th
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar with Waltz, he's most well known for inviting The... May 2nd micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated May 6th
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I'd rather read the promptI have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life. claytonwramsey.com Clayton Ramsey 2,000 words Rated May 5th
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"You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? * TorrentFreakThe statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. But did the campaign use a pirated font? Apr 24th TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated May 4th
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt ReferralJudge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down. May 1st BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated May 3rd
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects<p>The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings the global technical community together to connect and have technical discussions, hack on existing projects and ...</p>\n Apr 1st Diff 1,000 words Rated May 2nd
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela Apr 24th The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated Apr 30th
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Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and MeI smacked my daughter once. The guilt still haunts me. #Culture #Literature #Memoir #Parenting #Psychology Mar 17th The MIT Press Reader 3,000 words Rated Apr 28th
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An end to all this prostate trouble?yarchive.net 9,000 words Rated Apr 27th
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Inside the Rise and Fall of Toys ‘R’ UsThe retailer turned everyone into a “Toys ‘R’ Us kid”… by driving its competition out of existence. 2018-03-19 HISTORY Erin Blakemore 2,000 words Rated Apr 23rd
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How Private Equity Was BornPrivate equity, now a major presence in the US economic landscape, has been booming since the 2008 financial crisis. Its roots lie in the rise of the corporation at the turn of the century and the shareholder revolution of the 1980s. jacobin.com 2,000 words Rated Apr 23rd
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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov... fxrant.blogspot.com 2,000 words Rated Apr 21st
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Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.Rated Apr 20th
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How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels (Published 2020)The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet. #Children 2020-08-20 The New York Times William Brennan ($) 7,000 words Rated Apr 16th
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But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotextBut what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext rakhim.exotext.com 500 words Rated Apr 11th
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Faced with measles, Texas healthcare workers confront ‘information warfare’For the first time in a decade, a US child has died of measles. What can doctors and nurses do to encourage vaccination? #Donald Trump #Politics #United States Mar 31st Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated Apr 8th
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world? Apr 7th GitButler Scott Chacon 3,000 words Rated Apr 7th
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Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrongAbout nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We s… Mar 24th lesswrong.com lc 9,000 words Rated Apr 6th
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Buying Sunglasses in Brazil (or how to restore commitment in bargaining)The last time our family went to Brazil, our little ones arrived poorly prepared. We did not bring any sunglasses. Why would we? London’s winter sky rarely requires them. Brazil? That’s a different story. Upon our first five-minute walk between the luxurious apartment blocks, we were struck by the brightest of sunlight. Instead of buying… 2024-09-10 The hold-up problem 2,000 words Rated Apr 6th
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fi-le.netfi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files Rated Apr 5th
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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhipThere is only one thing worse than being imitated Apr 3rd The AI Underwriter Otakar G. Hubschmann 1,000 words Rated Apr 4th
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Bikes in the Age of TariffsToday's post was going to be about a new product we're introducing—but we need to hold off while we recalculate our prices. You've probably seen the news: Virtually all imports into the United States will be subjected to additional, steep import taxes, also called tariffs. The… Rene Herse Cycles 4,000 words Rated Apr 3rd
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The April Fools joke that might have got me firedEveryone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s... oldvcr.blogspot.com 2,000 words Rated Apr 2nd
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTAGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model. Mar 28th thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 4,000 words Rated Mar 31st
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What to DoRated Mar 30th
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The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson · Articoli ⟋ RAOne of the most creative DJs in the game unpacks her methods for Elissa Stolman. 2019-02-06 Resident Advisor Elissa Stolman 7,000 words Rated Mar 29th
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in CanadaJason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’ Mar 26th The Guardian Rachel Leingang 1,000 words Rated Mar 28th
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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog] Jan 10th Supernuclear Phil Levin 1,000 words Rated Mar 27th
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Cottagecore Programmers: The Idealization of Farming by TechRated Mar 25th
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Stimulus Autocomplete with Combobox NavigationHYBRD 1,000 words Rated Mar 24th
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A Brief History of The Super 73 ProblemWith the rising popularity of the Super 73 model, we’re focused on educating riders and regulatory bodies about the distinctions between throttle-powered and pedal-assist e-bikes. E-BIKE ACCESS 3,000 words Rated Mar 24th
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Meet the Guy Who Invented the Belay Test—and the Modern American Climbing GymWhen Peter Mayfield set out to create the first gym designed to welcome new climbers to the sport, he made climbing gym history. Mar 17th Climbing Bruce Hildenbrand 3,000 words Rated Mar 23rd
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Memo 3: So, you want to be a SupervisorThe Burton machine when choosing which ambitious neophyte candidate to back, would usually decide on a single factor: “Which one will knock doors in the rain?”. 2024-12-01 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 4,000 words Rated Mar 23rd
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How Much Would You Need to be Paid to Live on a Deserted Island for 1.5 Years and Do Nothing but Kill Seals?I read and reviewed Oliver Platt’s Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age over a year ago, and I haven’t been able to get one small story from the book out of my head. In 1793, the British government launched the Macartney Embassy, the nation’s first formal diplomatic mission… 2020-07-10 Matt Lakeman 3,000 words Rated Mar 21st
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Understanding Solar EnergyThe biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels. Mar 20th Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated Mar 20th
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